Cauliflower Fried ?Rice?

Cauliflower Fried ?Rice?

At the turn of each year, without fail come January 1 suddenly everyone is talking about healthy eating. It’s like a switch is ... Read More

At the turn of each year, without fail come January 1 suddenly everyone is talking about healthy eating. It’s like a switch is flipped and everyone is oogling over bowls of vegetables instead of towers of cookies. Since Alex and I are all about bowls of vegetables, we love it! But we know it is fleeting, usually about a month and then we all settle back in to “normal”.
But what if bowls of vegetables became our normal" Over the holiday we watched Michael Pollan’s new documentary In Defense of Food, and wanted to pump our fists in the air every other second (you can watch it too!). Instead of sensationalizing an elimination diet, let’s focus on eating whole, non-processed foods, in sensible quantities! Let’s eat mostly vegetables, but not feel like we have to deprive ourselves of meat in entirety (unless we want to). Let’s eat food, not too much, mostly plants.
Why is it that a moderate, balanced approach isn’t sexy" Elimination diets are great for a short-term change. But for a healthy approach to eating in the long term, instead a crash and burn diet cycle (because we’ve all been there!), we’re focusing on small, approachable steps.
It’s been nearly 8 years since Alex and I started eating whole foods and mostly vegetables, and I can wholeheartedly say that our lives have never been more delicious, more joy-filled, and more abundant. A bowl-full of vegetables has never looked so good. Yes, we’re swayed by brownies and chocolates and cookies every now and again, but fresh, seasonal veg highlighted with intriguing herbs and spices is what we crave. And our home town of Indianapolis has changed right along with us in those 8 years; it’s undergone a renaissance from a Midwestern fast food town to a mecca of budding culinary life, urban farms and neighborhood farmer’s markets. Fresh eating in our town has never been better.

2016 is going to be a good one, and we’re excited to bring you more mostly plant recipes, more inspiration for eating healthy in the long-term in our Healthy + Whole series, and more conversations in food in our A Couple Cooks Podcast! Thank you thank you for all your support, particularly in the podcast endeavor – it’s been such a blast to bring you celebrity chefs like Mario Batali and Graham Elliott, urban farmers, pizza restaurateurs, and food personalities like Annie of Annie’s Eats. What more would you like to see or hear from A Couple Cooks in 2016" Let us know; we’d love to hear.
Oh and this recipe — intensely delicious and easy! Some friends recommended trying out cauliflower “rice”, chopping cauliflower down into small bits that mimic grains of rice and frying it up. It’s intended for grain-free diets, but we were more in...

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